A history of the 'Planet of the Apes'

By Chris Quinn :
July 11, 2014

2014: "Dawn of the Planet of the Apes" promises all kinds of monkey mayhem and ape vengeance.

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2011: Caesar leads a revolution that will ultimately lead to the "Rise of the Planet of the Apes." And he does it on the Golden Gate Bridge.

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2001: The remake of "Planet of the Apes" had one big problem … Tim Burton. Not even an orangutan-ed Paul Giamatti could save the movie.

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1973: "Battle for the Planet of the Apes" was the final movie in the original series. But with low budget quality, it could not do justice to the epic final battle between man and ape.

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1972: “Conquest of the Planet of the Apes” showed how the apes and chimps overthrew humans in the original storyline to become masters of the Earth. Sadly, Ricardo Montalban did not survive the purge.

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1971: “Escape from the Planet of the Apes.” Talking chimps invade 20th Century Earth?! And we see Caesar into the story for the first time. Only at first he’s called Milo.

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1970: “Beneath the Planet of the Apes.” A second spacecraft, on a rescue mission for the first lost craft, falls to future Earth ruled by apes. But Charlton Heston shows them but good when he blows up the planet in the final act. Of course, this did not stop the sequels.

1968: “Planet of the Apes.” The big daddy that kicked off the whole damn dirty ape love affair. The epic film has Charlton Heston showing us what happens when Roddy McDowall bans guns in America.